Elizabeth Hagedorn

Voice (Classical Music)/ Musical (Musical)

Artistic & Pedagogical Education

  • 1987 University of Colorado - Boulder, USA Voice / Vocal Pedagogy M.M.
  • 1979 University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, USA Vocal Music Education B.M.

Teaching Experience

  •  2021-2023 MUK - Music and Art Private University Vienna Stimmbildung  Area 1 (Conductors / Collaborative Piano / Composition) Lecturer 
  •  2013-2016 University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA (Voice Performance / Music Education) Visiting Associate Professor of Voice
  •  Since 2016 Performing Center Austria, Performing Academy - Voice
  •  Voice Faculty: Aims in Graz / Vienna Summer Music Festival
  •  Presentation “Teaching Global Styles in the Classroom” for the Teachers Continuing Education Program City of Vienna / Convention of “International Society for Music Education” (ISME) Salzburg 2017
  •  Since 2010 Opera Masterclasses / Opera Performance Workshops / EFT Tapping-Audition Stress Management / Music Education “Teaching Crossover Voice”  USA und International
  •  Seit 2024 Voice faculty an der Friedrich Gulda School of Music

Concerts & Performances

  •  1990 - 2016 As soprano in over 50 main roles guesting in international opera houses in Germany, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic and USA, as well as in  ensemble engagements in Germany.
  •  Selected roles: Violetta, Leonora (Trovatore), Elisabetta (Don Carlo),  Konstanze, Donna Elvira, Mimi, Tosca, Suor Angelica, Rusalka, Salome, Ariadne, Chrysothemis, Elsa, Senta, Marie (Wozzeck), Leonore (Fidelio), Ellen Orford, Mona Lisa, Maddalena (Chenier) und Olympia/Antonia/Giulietta (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). Operettas: Rosalinda, Hanna Glawari, Clivia, Pompadour, Carlotta.
  •  World premiers in Germany and Austria.
  •  CD recording: Carlos Veerhoff  Symphony Nr. 6 - Desiderata Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig, Leopold Hager.